I was 12. The only thing i remember is them playing queen's we are the champions whilst we were walking out of the ground.

Bout 84ish?

Bloody awful that, they kept repeating it on Granada Reports, it looked like it was made of rubber. Worst I've ever seen.

There was a bloke from Widnes stood near us. He'd barely said a word during the first half, but was seriously baiting us all through the second. After Offiah's third try, he came close to getting decked. Laughing and poking at us. Said something like: "You might be a good team, but you've never had a player this good and never will."

If only he'd known that Chariots had no plans to spend his whole career at Widnes.

I think Wigan wanted him to go full time and he didnt want to give up his job so went to Halifax instead.

That can't be right, Wigan were all full time professionals from 1985 weren't they?

I spoke to Mark Preston a few years ago and can't remember the exact details of the conversation. I do recall that the reason for leaving was he couldn't (or wouldn't) meet John Monie's instructions to add a couple of stones in weight. I remember saying that such an increase would severely and adversly affect his speed, to which Mark agreed. A damned shame really, but Monie was the boss!

I heard that Monie had asked him to switch from his hair being parted on the right to it being parted on the left.

doubt that as we signed Myers instead and he was smaller

David Myers was a lot bulkier than Preston

no he wasnt

yes he was